Definition of "man and wife" []

• A newly married couple (noun)

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• "Carp settled on Buffalo creek, Wilkinson county, Mississippi, where he and Mrs. Curt lived as man and wife for many years."
• ""I now pronounce Henry, Duke of Albany, Earl of Ross, and Mary, Sovereign Lady of Scots and the Isles by the grace of God, to be man and wife indeed," said the priest."
• "They had not lain together as man and wife since that time after Riccio's death when she had used that as a means to win him to her side."